New York Times articles are not attacking the “occupation” anymore, but the very idea of a Jewish state.
The New York Times has become the official paper of Israel’s Western would-be eradicators.
Joseph Levine’s latest oped argued that Israel has no right to exist and that history should be reversed: “I conclude, then, that the very idea of a Jewish state is undemocratic, a violation of the self-determination rights of its non-Jewish citizens, and therefore morally problematic”. The New York Times’ relentless attacks could well play out in ways that indeed attempt to put an end to Israeli sovereignty.
According to Levine’s racist belief, “native species” originate in a certain place and that is where they “belong.” Hence, Israel’s “colonization” threatens the “original” Arab environment. This is pure and simple Nazism. The New York Times’ Israel-bashers use a style similar to the language used by anti-Semites the world over: Israel is inferior and must not enjoy the rights accorded to other peoples.
The New York Times articles are not attacking the “occupation” anymore, but the very idea of a Jewish state. The Times’ incitement against Zionism is compulsive, full of half-baked truths and ill-disguised hysteria. The Times just hosted an oped by Rashid Khalidi, the PLO supporter and anti-Zionist militant from Columbia University. In his latest column, he charges Israel of being an alien, settler entity, comparing its existence to South Africa’s apartheid.
At the Times there are also those who do not advocate eradicating Israel, but work to remove any shred of justification for supporting it by following some elementary rules: promoting the myth of Palestinian “moderation”, whitewashing terror groups and demonizing the “settlers”.
As in the 1930’s, when the New York Times downplayed the Nazi genocide of European Jews in order to avoid being seen as a “Jewish” newspaper, today Thomas Friedman, Roger Cohen (the dupe of Tehran) and Nicolas Kristof are the Jewish journalists who have been leading the charge in demonizing Israel and unabashedly praising the “Arab Spring” and Iran’s “pragmatism”.
Thomas Friedman plays a major role in shaping Obama’s plan for Israel’s return to the pre-1967 armistice line, which the late Abba Eban dubbed the “Auschwitz borders”. It was Friedman who wrote that the White House is “disgusted” with Israeli interlocutors. The famous Jewish columnist has always been a militant suporter of the Palestinian cause. According to the US columnist, Israeli settlers are a “cancer for the Jewish people” and those who “collaborate” in the building of settlements are “enemies of peace” and “enemies of America’s national interest”, no less.
“What Israeli settlers and Palestinian suicide bombers have in common is that they are each pushing for the maximum use of force against the other side”, he wrote after the killing of young grade-schooler Kobi Mandell. For Friedman, building a home on disputed territory is apparently the moral equivalent of stoning Jews – even school age ones – to death. To equate the two, as Friedman always does, is to create moral mush. At age fourteen, Kobi was immobilized and stoned to death as was his friend, his body hidden in a cave. The terrorists soaked their hands in the boy’s blood and smeared the walls of the cave with it.
Friedman also crossed the Rubicon when he opined that “Jewish money” (note not Israeli money) caused the standing ovations Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, gave the Prime Minister of Israel, Binyamin Netanyahu.
As far back as 1929, during the Arab riots, the local Times correspondent Joseph Levy boasted that he was a committed anti-Zionist. Eighty years later, when the Fogels were slaughtered in Itamar, the New York Times chose not to cover that event on the front page, nor to comment it.
And how to forget the “Pharisees on the Potomac” headline by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on what she considers to be the moral hypocrisy of Republican Party?
Every morning, opening the New York Times, the reader finds very accurate stuff about the Holocaust, the most extreme demonstration of Jewish powerlessness, (ignored and put on the back pages of the Times while it was taking place) along with opeds like that of Peter Beinart titled “To Save Israel, Boycott the Settlements”.
While remembering the death of 6.000.000 Jews, the New York Times suggests collective punishment for 600.000 living Jews. Nothing is more likely to stimulate violence against “the settlers” than such Holocaust vacuity.
The New York Times’ avid PLO supporters and propagandists are the descendamts of one of the most celebrated journalists of his time, the first New York Times Pulitzer Prize winner, Walter Duranty, who in the thirties fed the American public instantly-rewritten history of the famine in the Ukraine. By persuading the world that Stalin’s version of events was true, Duranty’s fairy tales cost thousands,if not millions,of lives.
The Times consistently ignores the genocidal anti-Semitism that governs Hamas and Hizbullah, described therein as “militant” groups concerned with the social welfare of Palestinians and Lebanese. The Times’ articles from Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem and Bethlehem during the Second Intifada could have been written about the Taliban in the Afghan caves. These depicted the Palestinian terrorists as freedom fighters meeting their noble fate.
That favorable press in the New York Times encourages the Arabs to believe they can get away with murder is a given. By reinforcing the Islamic claim that those who died on the Temple Mount were martyred defenders of holy places, mowed down by savage, unprovoked Israeli authorities, the New York Times also helped inflame millions of Muslims against Israel. By calling the area “Muslim compound” and omitting any mention of the Temple Mount or its Jewish connection, the New York Times convinced the world that Ariel Sharon had intruded upon a site holy solely to Islam, helping to trigger the second Intifada.
As the latest Levine’s oped shows, the New York Times is a crypto-Nazi publication whose message is, plain and simple, “Jews, go home, again”. There is a Klezmer festival in Krakow this year.
The writer, an Italian journalist with Il Foglio, writes a twice-weekly column for Arutz Sheva. He is the author of the book “A New Shoah”, that researched the personal stories of Israel’s terror victims, published by Encounter. His writing has appeared in publications, such as the Wall Street Journal, Frontpage and Commentary. He is at work on a book about the Vatican and Israel.
@ Martin:
Great post
It is getting so tiresome, reading over the years on this knowledgeable exoteric, ingenious, literary, perennial unceasing squabbling by the world’s finest intelligence on all sides of the question of Israel, like children over the ownership of toys. Stop it!
Annex, Transfer and then we’ll know to whom the toys belong.
That is not news. We all knew that long time ago.
@ Shy Guy:
True that!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@ yamit82:
Ah Yamit, you always stand tall and unafraid,that is why I always enjoy your coments. In this generation our enemies seem to be our own. Mayor Bloomberg Chuckie Summer, Madoff cause me so much grief. I am always being judge by what they due,say,and write.
The Germanic classical Reform Jewish publishers of the NYT would have died in the plague of darkness in Egypt like the rest of the self-hating Jews.
Of course, every time I read a hit piece like Joseph Levine’s, it provides the precise reason for the existence of the Jewish State. Seeking to discredit Judaism and its historical attachment to the Land of Israel is a most nihilistic act and shows that he cares not a wit for any human value except the grave no matter how he might protest to the contrary.
Levine was an online NYT blog, not the Op-Ed page where Friedman resides, and can get echo.
I have yet to find a critique of Levine’s personal anxiety attack over Judaism where anyone took the time to research his work, which has ZERO to do with anything Israel. This is based on Levine’s personal story.
Stop the echo!
@ yamit82:
Yamit, it is a spiritual force at play that defies rationality. When the Jews are not the “light unto the nations” by failing to be loyal to Torah values, the nations respond by lashing out at us. This explains antisemitism as there is no other way to explain it.
Yes, whenever that vast majority of Jews were loyal to Torah values. Think the Davidic and Solomonic empires.
The problem identified leads to the solution!
Mark Levin says it best, The New York Slime”.
It is the Jewish leadership itself, with rare exceptions, that provides the political ammunition to our enemies to destroy Israel. Netanyau himself insists on establishing another Arab country inside Israel while he admits that Israel is on “occupied land.”
A carefully documented book “The Rights of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel” by Salomon Benzimra has been available for at least two years. It refutes every anti-Israel claim. The Israeli government and the Jewish establishment all refuse to even acknowledge the book’s existence.
All through our long history our Jewish leaders have often betrayed the people because they betrayed Judaism itself. Our current crop of mostly corrupt leaders has assured that there will be another terrible war and many Jews will perish including some in the diaspora as well.
Jewish genius also comes with Jewish stupidity that is incapable of ever learning from experience.
Sounds much like an NPR program some years ago where they postulated whether there was any more need of a “Jewish State”.
Passover is coming in a little over a week and there is a lesson that many of us need reminding.
From the Haggadah:
“FOR NOT ONLY HAS ONE RISEN AGAINST US TO DESTROY US, BUT IN ALL GENERATIONS THEY RISE UP AGAINST US TO DESTROY US.”
Here there is a double stress on “to destroy us” – The goal of the gentile nations is not just to distress us, but rather our very existence is what bothers them. And so it is in this generation, where a piece of territory or another is not what interests them, but rather the annihilation of Am Yisrael, and this illogical hatred of the nations was bred at Mount Sinai.
“BUT IN EVERY GENERATION THEY RISE UP AGAINST US TO DESTROY US”
What a flat statement to make! And the question may be asked: Was there not a generation where they did NOT rise up against us to destroy us? But there are different methods to wipe us out. There are those who try to wipe us out physically, like Haman and Hitler; and there are those try to wipe us out physically through trickery, so we that we won’t prevent the attempt to do so. Then there are those who try to destroy us spiritually by assimilation, like Greece. In any case, the rule that Esau hates Yaakov holds in every generation, as we see in this statement.
The NYT is the voice and conduit of those who wish to destroy “AM YISRAEL” not only the Jewish State.
I wonder how much “Arab money” Friedman et al are receiving from their Arab handlers…
The NYT is a kapo opportunity employer.
P.S. We should have Joseph Levine, Norman Finkelstein and all of these Self Hating Anti-Israel Jews (and their non-Jewish cohorts) visit Vittorio Arrigotti, the Italian Jew basher, in HELL, currently where he resides compliments of the terrorist organization Hamas, despite his complete and utter support for it and and its fight against Israel and the West.
When will these Schm[explative] learn their lesson? or are they just too stupid?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13088630
(Despite the liberal media’s attempt to claim that his murderers were from a rival group or faction to Hamas, even the semi-educated can deduce that these cockroaches all come from the same breed and usually move between groups. At the end of the day, they all fight for the same cause.)
Basically, Levine is a modern day reincarnation of T. Judt, V. Tilly, the wako N. Finkekstein, or any of the Arab or non-arab one-staters, although, less original. Thus, I assume he implies that if Israel in its current form is illegitimate and has no “right to exist” as the Jewish state, the alternative is a “non-secular” binational state, which has been promoted by Israel’s detractors for decades.
Ignoring his lies regarding the main reason for Israels’ creation, the 2,000 year Jewish desire to return home, and not the holocaust (this only made it somewhat more urgent), and the fact that legally Israel was created to be the Jewish National Homeland (League of Nations Article 2), his explanation as to why Israel shouldn’t exist for the Jewish people is the presence of a non-Jewish people. If that is true, why then should Iran, Saudi, Syria, exist solely for the Arabs, especially as these Arab/Muslim nation states evicted their Jewish populaces or worse.
More alarming, is his failure to highlight the the nature of such an alternative (what would the new state look like?). At best it would see the subjugation of the Jewish minority, but more likely its cleansing. In fact, one need not look any further than the treatment of Coptics in Egypt, woman and minorities in Gaza, and Israel circa 1920/21, 1929, 1936-1939, etc.
Clearly, Levin’s proposal merely would replace a democratic state with yet another Arab Nation state. Most likely, one that is radically Islamic.